Comment by Aifor

So if you're looking to buy greens to disenchant into Greater Planar Essences, buy weapons.

If you're looking to buy greens to disenchant into Arcane Dust, buy armor.

Comment by Blutarsky

Has anyone done any research into the chance to get 1 Essence vs 2 Essences when disenchanting level 70 green weapons? (The ones I saw had iLevel of 120)

I'm trying to figure out if it's worth disenchanting the green weapons I get, or selling them to a vendor for 6-10g.

Comment by supalink

If you want a cheap and available source of Greater planar essences (1-2 each DE), hope your faction usually controls Halaa and get to the vendor "Coreiel" and buy The Sharp Cookie

The vendor carries 3 of them at one time, sells them for 2g 21s 42c. They are unique so make sure you DE each one as you buy them.

Generally DE's into 1-2 essences, if your unlucky 2-5 Arcane dust.

Comment by Jujue

you want a cheap and available source of Greater planar essences (1-2 each DE), hope your faction usually controls Halaa and get to the vendor "Coreiel" and buy The Sharp Cookie

The alliance vendor is Aldraan, and the item is Avenging Blades.

Comment by Malgayne

Despite what you may see here, it does take three Lesser Essences to create a Greater Essence. What you see here is actually a quirk of the way Blizzard handles the spell. On Blizzard's end, a two-step process occurs:

You use the first Lesser Essence, destroying it in the process.

A spell is cast, which destroys the other two Lesser Essences, and creates a Greater Essence.

This spell here--step two--is the spell that gets listed here on Wowhead.

Comment by Kefra

Because of the new dailies in 2.4, the market is now flooded with high-level greens (from the Shattered Sun Supplies quest reward). Expect the average price for common high-level enchanting mats (Arcane Dust, Greater Planar Essence) to take a nosedive. On my server Arcane Dust has dipped below 75s apiece and Greater Planars are barely 5g.

Keeping that in mind, if you're an enchanter doing the new dailies, it might be better to vendor some greens (or even list them on the AH) than disenchant them. Generally, the more armor a green gives, the higher its vendor value (cloth < leather < mail < plate < shield, and wrist < waist < boots < shoulders, etc). which should help you decide whether to DE or vendor. If your server's economy is like mine (Arcane Dust = 75s and Greater Planar = 5g) then that more or less means vendor ALL weapons, mail and plate armor (except for bracers and belts), because the vendor value far exceeds the AH value of the mats you're likely to get (unless you luck out and hit the 5% chance for the shard). If you've already got loads of dust and essences in your bank, then that's even more reason to start vendoring those greens.

(edit: the less-than signs now point the right way lol)

Comment by angelblack

I don't know what my server is doing wrong but these have skyrocketed on Stormwind. 13-15g a piece for these and it's been going on for at least 2 months.I'm inclined to respec enchanting to 375 again just to sell these.

Comment by sqlx

Price increase seems to have happened on Akama too. Arcane dust on the other hand is going for about 65s a piece. Pretty odd.

Comment by Jayl3w

I can sell a stack of 10 for 80-90g easy on Andorhal, 100-110g if I wait long enough.

They're my "money crop" enchant mats, really.

Comment by panteruka86

Is there any Tailoring item that gives them with a bigger chance? The netherweave belts give a few but it has a bigger chance to get arcane dust. What about blacksmithing? Any item with a decent rate?

Thanks

Comment by muhashi

Is there any other places to buy cheap greens to de into this cuz lately the prices on AH jumped from 10g a piece to 20-25g and i cant afford that just to rune my enchanting rods

Comment by Trago

Nope, the sign he used is actually less than.

Comment by Thoughtleech

The "created by" tab is incorrect. Like all other Greater Essences, the Planar also is created from 3 Lessers; NOT from 2.

Comment by Ignazio

In my server atm, Greater Plannars worth 15-20g each !I found this place a great way to earn free money.Buy 3x Arkadian Claymore and 3x Sharp Cookie

(About 33g+ to buy the 6 weapons.)Disenchanting you usually get...5-10 Greater Plannars ( 75-150g) http://www.wowhead.com/?item=22446And some 2-10 Arcane Dust (that in my server gives me some extra 30g = 10 Arcane Dust Arcane Dust)I usually make about 100g each time i come here.. My faction almost always controls Halaa.. so I leave my druid there... and log with my hunter to pvp. Every 1 or 2 Battlegrounds i just relog, buy the 6 weapons, disenchant and just log back on my hunter.

Comment by ToxiD8

Why does Lesser Planar Essence in Reagents shows 2 when it requires exactly 3x Lesser Planar Essence to make one Greater Planar Essence?

Comment by FurySpec

See Malgayne's comment above; it's auto-populated based on the quirky machanics WoW uses to convert three Lesser into one Greater (which, you're right, is the correct ratio).

Comment by Lewistibby

If you are a tailor, you can DE both Greater Planar Essence and the equally valuable Arcane Dust by disenchanting netherweave pants, becomes available at 325 tailoring. You usually get 1 maybe 2 greater planar essences and often 2-4 arcane dusts. It only requires 6 bolts of netherweave cloth and 1 rune thread to create, both cheap enough to get on AH and tailor supplies respectively, or you can farm your own cloth. Additionally, they sell for around 10g per 1 greater planar essence and around 60g or more for a stack of arcane dust so you cannot lose out on this whether you need the dust and essence or whether you need some cash.

Comment by Ifishalot

Having used a Scroll of Ressurection to bring back a friend to WoW, I started to play my Belf Priest again since she's the closest character to 80 I have. Her professions are Tailoring and Enchanting which I started to level too. I needed 6x Greater Planar Essence to create Runed Eternium Rod. I decided to follow Insomniaxes advice and went to farm "The Blood Furnace" in Outland. I must say the droprate of greens was terrible (altough I only did 1 run, so I might just be unlucky). I got 2 that disenchanted into Arcane Dust. I got a lot of Netherweave Cloth from the run which I converted into Bolts of Netherweave, and then into 17x Netherweave Bracers. After having them disenchanted I ended with the following mats:

Comment by gbalkam

Update to current information:

These are no longer needed to rune a rod, since only the runed copper rod is needed for enchanting now. The remainder of the posts seem to still be current as per gathering and disenchanting items to get greater or lesser planar essences.